Above : Picture of St Dionysius In the ninth and tenth centuries Ireland sent a great number of teachers to the Con­tinental schools, and all the more because great as was the fame of its earlier schools, it had then few flourishing homes of learning of its own. The names of many of these professors have not been preserved, but the reputation which they gained on the Continent is evidenced in many ways. Thus we find that when the Emperor Frederick the Second ... Read More

Above : Initial Letter "E", Book Of Kells One of the most distinguished and learned of Irish Archaeologists* has remarked that we must draw from foreign depositories the materials on which to rest the proofs that Ireland of old was really entitled to that literary eminence which natural feeling lays claim to. Nearly all our domestic evidences of advanced learning have been swept away and destroyed. Hence our real know­ledge of Irish teachers and scholars who migrated to the Continent, and became masters ... Read More